Donald Trump Impeachment | Explained by Dhruv Rathee - YouTube

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You must have heard in the news how the US President Donald Trump was impeached a few days ago

What is the meaning of impeachment and why is it being done?

And how does this affect the US politics and world politics?

Come let us see this in today's explanatory video

"They don't even have any crime! This is the first impeachment where there is no crime.

I said, tell me what I did, please?

Oh, we don't know... You've violated the constitution

First, we will have to understand their political system

There are two main political parties in the US

One is the democrats that are represented by blue color

And the other one is the republicans that are represented by the red color

In 2016 elections, when Donald Trump became the President, he was a candidate of the Republican Party

And Hilary Clinton, who lost the elections belonged to the Democrat Party

In November 2020, elections are going to be held again

Donald Trump wants to be relected to become a President again

But this time, Hilary Clinton won't stand for elections as a Democrats candidate

Who will be the Presidential candidate of the Democrats party has not yet been decided

Because elections are conducted inside the party too, to decide

who will become their party leader in order to fight presidential elections

So think of it like who will be the inside leaders, the party leaders in the BJP and the Congress

this too, is decided by the people in America

There are some candidates that are fighting to become the Presidential candidate for the Democrats Party

For example, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang... and right now,

as off December, 2019, Joe Biden is leading in the polls

So, in a way, you could say that the competitor of Donald Trump could be Joe Biden

in order to become the President in November 2020

When Obama was the US President, then Joe Biden held the post of the Vice President

And now, he himself is standing in the Presidential elections

Joe Biden has a son- Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden is a businessman that has made dealings with a lot of companies

There was an ongoing dealing in Ukraine in 2014

As you might know, Ukraine is a country bordering Russia

So the United Kingdom had been investigating the Ukrainian company on charges of money laundering

This was the background story

Now, this entire impeachment issue is related to just a phone call

USA was going to give Ukraine a foreign aid of 400 million dollars

This is what it normally gives

But this foreign aid was stopped a few months ago

President Trump got this stopped by saying that first he will look into it and then this foreign aid is to be given later

In July 2019, President Trump made a phone call to the Ukrainian President

In that phone call, Donald Trump allegedly told the Ukrainian President that if he wanted the foreign aid,

then launch an investigation of money laundering against Hunter Biden- the son of Joe Biden

Donald Trump also said that when Joe Biden was the vice President under the Obama government,

then Joe Biden had stopped this money laundering investigation from taking place

and (that) now, he had to complete this investigation

So this was basically blackmail using the country's money

If any kind of investigation happens against the son of Joe Biden,

then it is an obvious fact that this is going to have a negative effect on his image

When the 2020 elections would arrive, Donald Trump could say that the son of the man contesting alongside him,

has been facing allegations of corruption and charges of money laundering

So basically, Donald Trump would get an edge in the elections

So the entire allegation is that Donald Trump, for his own personal gain

is stopping the country's money and has been spoiling the foreign relations

and has been blackmailing another country

only for the sake of his election political benefit

So when this call was made, Donald Trump had put the transcript of this call into classified files

But there must be some guy working in his administration

who saw what all had been written in this phone call and that it had been put into classified (section)

then he became a whistleblower and he leaked it to the media and the CIA

that how Donald Trump had talked all this with the Ukrainian President and now he is trying to conceal it

So the photos that you are seeing is the official transcript of that phone call

that happened between Trump and the Ukrainian President

This transcript has been displayed publicly because of that whistle blower

After this phone call was made public, then a lot of politicians and media houses said that

this is abuse of power and that this was wrong to happen

There should be an impeachment for this and in September, 2019,

the official investigations of impeachment commenced

"The actions of the Trump's presidency revealed discernible facts of the President's betrayal

of his oath of office, betrayal of the national security

and betrayal of the integrity of our elections

Therefore, today, I am announcing the House of Representatives moving forward

with official impeachment inquiry"

After that, a lot of discussions and public hearings took place

And finally, on 18th December, 2019,

their House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump

Now you will have to understand this that just like there is Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in India,

Similarly, the US has a House of Representatives and a Senate

The House of Representatives is equivalent to the Lok Sabha that you can call the "Lower House"

and the Senate is equivalent to the Rajya Sabha which you can call the "Upper house"

In this House of Representatives, there are 235 candidates of the Democrats Party and

199 Republican Party candidates

So when the voting took place in this house regarding the impeachment,

then all the Democrats Party candidates voted in favor of impeaching Donald Trump

and all the Republican party candidates voted in order to save Trump

But since the Democrats Party was in majority, Trump was granted impeachment in this house

But this does not mean that Trump would no longer be President

Impeachment means that there is an official charge and an allegation of misconduct against Trump

of indulging in corruption and doing something wrong while still holding his public position

Now the next would be that there would be a voting regarding this in the Senate

But a 2/3rds majority would be required in the Senate for the impeachment to go through

So a simple majority suffices in the House of Representatives

but a 2/3rd majority would be required here

and a voting regarding this would happen in January 2020

But if this 2/3rd majority is achieved,

Then you can say that Donald Trump would have to officially vacate his President's post

and then he would no longer remain President

But something like this happening is extremely difficult, in fact, it is next to impossible

Because the Senate, their upper house,

has more of Republican Party candidates- 53 of them

as compared to the Democrats Party, which only has 47 candidates

So if a voting is organised,

and the entire Republican Party votes in favor of Donald Trump

because Donald Trump belongs to their political party

then it is extremely difficult to get a 2/3rds majority

A simple majority itself would not be achieved

67 votes would be require for a 2/3rds majority

"You are the ones interfering in America's elections

You are the one subverting America's democracy

We did nothing wrong. Nothing whatsoever.

This is just an excuse..."

So when this impeachment took place, in reaction, Donald Trump said that

Such atrocious lies by the radical left, do nothing Democrats. This is an assault on America

and an assault on the Republican party

And then he shared this meme

In reality, they are not after me. They are after you. I'm just in the way

Whats hilarious is that this meme that Donald Trump shared

This meme was copied from Modi. Modi supporters use this meme that

In reality, they are not coming after Modi or Trump

They're after the country's citizens

So you can notice how cleverly Donald Trump said

They are not after me. They do not want to impeach me. They want to attack America

This is an assault on the country

So in a way, give the tag of "country traitor" to the opposition

This is the politics that is being played here

And you must have noticed that this is being done in India too

"So I said in my letter to Pelosi

by proceeding with your invalid impeachment

You're violating your oath of office

You're breaking your allegiance to the Constitution

You're declaring an open war on American democracy"

Everything here is an issue of image

The Democrat party knows that a total impeachment of Trump would not be possible

because they do not have a majority in the Senate

But if this Democrat Party succeeds in impeaching Trump even in one house

Then this would have an effect on the public image of Trump

To the neutral people, it would seem that Trump does not have any image left

He is counted alongside those Presidents that have been impeached

So he must be a very corrupt man

And on the flip side, Trump is trying to do the same

Trump is also trying to show that Joe Biden, the candidate

must be extremely corrupt if there are allegations of money laundering against him in Ukraine

My opposition candidate is an extremely corrupt person

So you should vote for me

Now that this has happened, Trump is again trying to do the same thing that

Look how big of an attack is being attempted on me. I am a victim here

I am being attacked. America is being attacked. That is, you are being attacked

The proof of how effective this politics is upon people can be seen in this chart

In May 2019, when it was made public that Trump had made such a phone call,

then 52% of the people, as you can see, were in favour of the fact that Trump should not be impeached

Only 40% of the people wanted Trump to be impeached

But in the end of September, when it was announced that the impeachment inquiry is being commenced,

Then the opinion of the people changed on its own and you can see how

46% people now came out in support of Trump's impeachment and 46% against impeachment of Trump

And when the House voted in favour of Trump's impeachment then you would notice how this number increased

47.6% people want Trump to be impeached

and 46.1% do not support the impeachment of Trump

It is very interesting to see that how the politics being played here

changes the public opinion gradually

when one thing happens and another thing happens

And eventually, all this is going to have an effect when the Presidential election is held in November 2020

and it will have an effect on who becomes the President

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